"There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past."

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Dodie Smith

#Sweet Quotes #Flower Quotes #Past Quotes

“Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!”
“You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?”

Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.”
“I like the feeling of feeling my feelings.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.”
“Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.121, Vintage
“Duane Allman was bursting with energy ... he was a force to be reckoned with. His drive and focus, as well as his intense belief in himself and our band, was incredible. He knew we were going to make it. We all knew we were a good band, but no one had that supreme confidence like he did, and it was a great thing, because his confidence and enthusiam were infectious... it says a lot that his hero was Muhammad Ali. That kind of supreme confidence that Ali had - that's where Duane was coming from”
“Let me tell you something. I ain't scared of nothing. I came out my mama.”

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